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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to William Shakespeare?
→ The valiant never taste of death but once.
→ We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
→ Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them.
→ If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
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Pick the quote attributed to William Shakespeare.
→ Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
→ Nothing will come of nothing.
→ Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
→ All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Select the quotation attributed to William Shakespeare.
→ To travel is to live.
→ If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
→ You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
→ No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
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One of these may be attributed to William Shakespeare. Which one?
→ Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
→ If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
→ Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
→ The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
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Which one of these belongs to William Shakespeare?
→ The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
→ In union there is strength.
→ The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
→ Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to William Shakespeare?
→ It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
→ Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
→ The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
→ The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to William Shakespeare.
→ Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
→ Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others.
→ Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
→ We know what we are, but not what we may be.
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One of the following quotations belongs to William Shakespeare. Which one?
→ The unexamined life is not worth living.
→ A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
→ There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.
→ If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to William Shakespeare?
→ The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
→ Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
→ Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
→ It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to William Shakespeare.
→ First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
→ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
→ No legacy is so rich as honesty.
→ In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.
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Looks like William Shakespeare is the author of one of these.
→ Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
→ Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
→ Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
→ Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to William Shakespeare.
→ There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
→ It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
→ A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
→ Friends are like melons. Shall I tell you why? To find one good, you must a hundred try.
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Which one should be attributed to William Shakespeare?
→ You can never plan the future by the past.
→ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
→ The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
→ We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to William Shakespeare?
→ He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
→ Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
→ If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
→ Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.
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Select the quote belonging to William Shakespeare.
→ Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
→ Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
→ The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
→ They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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Choose which quotation belongs to William Shakespeare.
→ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
→ Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.
→ For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
→ The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to William Shakespeare.
→ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
→ Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
→ One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
→ No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Identify the quotation belonging to William Shakespeare?
→ I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
→ No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
→ In time we hate that which we often fear.
→ Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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One of the following quotes belongs to William Shakespeare. Pick one.
→ The course of true love never did run smooth.
→ Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
→ If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
→ To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to William Shakespeare.
→ The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
→ There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
→ He who stops being better stops being good.
→ A liar should have a good memory.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to William Shakespeare?
→ The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
→ Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
→ If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
→ The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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Pick the quote attributed to William Shakespeare.
→ It is a wise father that knows his own child.
→ Never promise more than you can perform.
→ If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
→ Genius is eternal patience.
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Select the quotation attributed to William Shakespeare.
→ Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
→ Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.
→ If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
→ A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
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